This is CocoRosie's best long-player yet, and a sure contender for album of the year.  Full text...

Whenever I am told that an album sounds 'like nothing you have ever heard before' (unqualified acclaim or veiled criticism?), I am aware of its power to make me call my sanity into question.  Full text...

The Casady sisters still combine operatic grace with clunky hip-hop beats and pixie-voiced weirdness, yet there's a sort of hi-fi clarity that eluded their previous records. Sort of.   Full text...

Things are ridiculously the same: still a lot of little-kid vocals, little-kid sound effects, and an opening track that is scarily reminiscent of Lisa Stansfield (easy drum-machined beats + creepy lascivious ’90s kazoo made up to sound like a saxophone = one big WTF).  Full text...

It's time for the Cassady sisters to come back to reality.  Full text...

The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn is their third album, though, and if anything, it's a regression: CocoRosie seem to be intent on emphasising all that irritated in the first place.  Full text...